[Catalyst] RFC: Catalyst based ERP

[Kaare Rasmussen]

Hi David 

> Dashboard (don't knock it, it's a lightweight system that works),  my time 
> is tracked using OfficeTime (which also generates my  invoices), my 
> cashflow is in QuickBooks...the list goes on and on.

I think that your situation looks very much like most other developers :-) 

> - Better searching through my mail.  The OS X Mail program's  searching is 

Hmm. I'm thinking ERP in the classical "business" sense. Some of your ideas 
are interesting, and I think that most of them could be linked together. 

> - An up-to-the-minute graph showing revenue earned from each client  vs 
> time spent on that client, so that I can tell when it's time to  fire a 
> client.

Goes in the "project module" bin :-) 

> - Tracking on how long it usually takes a client to pay.

Accounts receivable. Check. 

> various apps I'm using--if there was an interface for adding 'Todo'  items 
> that was as easy as jotting a note on a Dashboard Sticky, and  that would 

Looking for something like that myself. While I don't think that I will do 
this - at least in the foreseeable future - I could put a project wish list 
together. 

> allow me to move the notes around the screen, that would  be great.  If 
> the notes could include hyperlinks to client  information, calendars, wiki 
> pages, etc, that would be great.

Also some kind of task <-> task connection. 

> - A built in wiki which supported ACLs on a per-page level so that I  
> could prevent certain users from accessing certain parts of the  site.  

There are people doing wikis in Catalyst. Maybe a proposition for them? 

> That's right off the top of my head.  If I sat down for an hour or  so, I 
> could generate a list ten times as long.  That should be enough  to keep 
> you busy, though.

Well, don't hold back. You could send to me off list, if you think that 
other people will be bored. I'm not.